- Place the summer sausage in a vacuum sealed bag and cook them in a water bath for 1 hour.
- Turn the oven on 200 degrees and place the jars in the oven for heating.
- Roll out the raw sausage and reheat it in a hot water bath (160-170 degrees F.) if necessary.
- Blend well all ingredients until evenly combined.
- Soak the casings in lukewarm water for 10-15 minutes. Cut the cooked sausage into pieces that fit into the canning jars.
- Prepare a brine or broth to add flavor and moisture to the sausage.
- Use Bearded Butcher Blend Seasonings when making sausage at home, but this recipe focuses on specific spices.
Canning sausage is a great way to preserve homemade sausages. The process involves boiling the sausage completely done before canning, placing the jars on a rack in a pressure canner with about two inches of simmering water (to 180 degrees Fahrenheit).
Boiling time for raw sausage mass is 120 minutes, while for pre-cooked sausage mass is 90 minutes. Process pints and quarts at 10 pounds pressure in a steam-pressure canner for 1 hour and 15 minutes, and 1 hour and 30 minutes for pints and quarts.
To cover the meat in the jars, melt lard in a heavy pot and keep it very hot. Preheating can lead to less vacuum being achieved during water bath canning and buckle failures during pressure canning. Grind fresh pork and season it.
Processing time starts from when the correct pressure is reached. Cut link sausage into 3 to 10 cm (1 to 4 inch) pieces or shape loose sausage meat into smaller patties or balls.
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Do you have to cook sausage before canning it?
To can sausage, it is crucial to cook it completely before canning. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and place the jars in the oven for heating. Roll the raw sausage into patties and calculate the number of patties you want to put in one jar. The magic number is 5 and fits nicely in a pint jar. One pound of sausage will average 1-2 pint jars, depending on the number of patties added per jar and the size of the patties. Fry the sausage thoroughly before packing it into a hot, wide-mouth pint jar and pouring the grease over it. There is no magic measurement, but using the grease from the pan seems to be enough.
Can you eat sausage straight from the can?
Vienna sausages are fully cooked by the time they are packaged and can be eaten straight from the can. They are often enjoyed warmed up, if not cooked in a recipe like pigs in a blanket, casseroles, or soup. Although they can be eaten raw, they are not considered “raw” in the true sense. Classic Vienna sausages are described as salty and meaty, with Sporked’s managing editor Gwynedd Stuart describing them as “not exactly bursting with meat flavor, but they’re totally pleasant”. Their soft texture makes them practically dissolved in the mouth.
How do you water bath sausage?
After smoking sausage, it is crucial to ensure its safety and desired appearance. To do this, remove the sausage from the smoker and place it in cold water to stop the cooking process. This will keep the casing tender. After cooling, place the sausage in the refrigerator or freezer if not consumed within two weeks. For more information on sausage making, download a chart on Choosing the Perfect Casing and learn about sausage casings. If you need help troubleshooting casings, visit troubleshooting casings.
Can I eat sausage in can without cooking?
Potted meat and Vienna sausages are frequently consumed directly from the can, without prior heating, due to their precooked and preserved nature, which renders them safe for consumption without additional preparation.
How to pressure can homemade sausage?
To can sausage, use a weighted gauge on the vent, set the pressure to 10 lbs, and process ints for 75 minutes or quarts for 90 minutes. Turn off the heat, allow the canner to cool to zero pressure, and remove the lid after five minutes. Pressure canning allows you to store flavorful meat on your pantry shelf, ready to heat and serve at a moment’s notice. Sausage is a versatile meat, perfect for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, and dessert. Enjoy sausages anytime you want with canning.
What is the ice water bath method?
Ice baths, also known as cold water immersion (CWI), are a form of cryotherapy that involves exposing the body to extremely cold temperatures for a short period of time. These baths have been used for centuries due to their potential therapeutic health benefits, such as reducing muscle soreness, pain, and improving mood. The process involves reducing body and skin temperature, narrowing blood vessels, and moving blood to the core to stay warm.
After completing the bath, blood vessels expand, pumping oxygen- and nutrient-rich blood back to the body’s tissues, including muscles. This process may help reduce inflammation that can cause pain and muscle soreness, such as delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) after exercise. However, current research on ice baths is limited.
Is it safe to can meat without a pressure canner?
Pressure canning is a safe and research-based method for canning meat, fish, and poultry to destroy Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium responsible for food poisoning. It is crucial to process canned meats correctly at the correct time and temperature in a pressure canner. Canning low-acid foods in boiling-water or steam canners is unsafe as botulinum bacteria can survive. If Clostridium botulinum survives and grows inside a sealed jar, it can produce a poisonous toxin, potentially fatal. For chicken or rabbit canning, choose freshly killed and dressed healthy animals, chill dressed chicken for 6 to 12 hours before canning.
Why do you ice a water bath for sausage?
The ice bath is an essential component of the process of separating meat from fibrous casings. Insufficient time or cold water can result in meat pieces adhering to the casing during peeling, necessitating meticulous handling and temperature control.
How long to leave sausage in an ice bath?
To prepare sausages, it is recommended that they be left in an ice bath for a period of 15 to 20 minutes, or until they have cooled sufficiently. Once removed from the bath, it is imperative that the sausages are completely dried before being reused.
How much water to add to homemade sausage?
To make great sausage, it is essential to test the internal temperature of the meat and use a shorter sausage of the same width for testing. Place a piece of tape on the spot where you plan to stick the sausage to prevent tearing. Cooking sausage at a too high temperature can cause “fat out”, so faster is not always better.
Keep notes on the percentage of each meat used and the seasonings to adjust the recipe next time. Add at least 1 oz. of water per pound of meat to aid in the stuffing process, easing the stress on the meat mixer and sausage stuffer. Experiment with liquids other than water, such as beer with Bratwurst seasoning or apple juice in Smoked sausage seasoning.
Have a helper when doing the stuffing to make the job easier. Don’t over stuff the sausage casings, especially if filling and twisting. Leave a little slack for the twist to avoid bursts. After mixing the seasoning with meat, fry up a small patty to ensure desired flavor.
If using an electric grinder for stuffing, have a foot switch to turn on and off the grinder to allow one person to manipulate the sausage casing. Alternate the direction of your turns when stuffing sausage to prevent links from unraveling.
For more information on sausage making, visit the LEM Staff’s chart on Choosing the Perfect Casing and learn more about smoking the perfect sausage.
Why ice water bath for sausage?
The ice bath is an essential component of the process of separating meat from fibrous casings. Insufficient time or cold water can result in meat pieces adhering to the casing during peeling, necessitating meticulous handling and temperature control.
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When the husband goes to target practice (which he always seems to win), he brings home a 12 lb box of frozen patties. I do this with them and talk about really good in soup with cabbage and beef! Whoo-ee! Great instructions on making your own from scratch. Very important to let the meat and seasonings marry at least 24 hrs as Jinne says! 😘 This is surely a couple weeks of cooking for holidays and savings while we’re able. ☝🏼☝🏼 Germany has told their people to prepare for rolling blackouts due to Nordstream/no fuel. Prep, pray, stack metals, repeat! Thanks Jinne, ~~QM ❤
Hey Jinne, I’ve done this 2 ways. One is browning the patties first, putting parchment paper in between in wide mouth jars. The other way is to not brown them first, putting parchment paper in between also in wide mouth canning jars. This latter way was much easier and less messy. Both ways came out fine.
My favorite seasonings for sausage patties: for one pound of sausage/pork – 1 small onion, finely chopped, 1/4 tsp. each of cumin, marjoram, pepper, nutmeg, oregano cayenne pepper, and ginger; 1/2 tsp. each of dried basil, thyme, sage; 2 tsp. sea salt, plus 2 TBL. bread crumbs and 1 egg, slightly beaten. Mix all and chill well. Form your patties.
I’ll have to do this for my husband. I can’t eat pork. It always made me sick then I found out I have a mild to moderate allergy to it. So I eat chicken or turkey sausage if I’m in the mood for it. My husband will fry up a pound of patties, then freezes leftovers for when he wants it. The issue for me is using freezer space for food I can’t eat. Then my husband has to thaw before frying then refreeze leftovers. I can definitely see this as a win win for both of us. Thanks for posting this. I’ve canned on and off for years but not just meat. I’m fairly new to canning meat by itself and I never thought of sausage patties. Thanks again. (And for the seasoning recipe in case I get adventurous and make my own patties from plain pork).
I do a very similar thing using a tube of sausage. I got a really good deal after christmas last year. Cutting them right in their tube shape goes perfectly into a half pint. Instead of a skillet I put them in the oven. After they brown I put three per jar. The texture is a little softer but if you brown them again after taking them out of the jar it isn’t that noticeable. The convenience too is great.
OMGOODNESS Gracious Jinnie You’re a Genius 💚💚💚💯💯💯. I’ve done this with meatballs but Never thought of doing sausage patties. Have you ever canned bacon?? I’ve heard mixed options on doing it, and since I Trust your canning ability I just wondered if you had. If you have do you have a article on it?? 💚💚🙏 Kendra
My husband asked me last week if I could make pickled smokies like the ones that used to be in a large jar sitting on the bar counter years ago. This article is perfect timing! When you use this brine for pickled vegetables, such as carrots, beans, asparagus (quart size) how long do you process? Thank you!!
Very good article. I’m going to give this a shot. I am not real experienced with canning. I have done hot wax peppers in the past but they always turned out mushy. The flavor was great, but I couldn’t get that Christmas and then I discovered that many people use calcium chloride. I have made quite a bit of hot pepper jelly over the years. Technically I think it would be considered preserves because it has the pepper pieces in it, but my question is, you mentioned you boil to sterilize the jars for 40 minutes. All of the recipes I used as a basis for my hot pepper jelly, it’s 10 minutes. I’m curious as to the reason you go with 40. I guess my first assumption would because meat is part of the equation but wanted to ask.
I’m brand new to canning but I thought you had to pressure can meat, is water bath canning these ok because of the “pickling liquid” or because the smokies are fully cooked? (I admit I’ve not eaten anything “pickled” other than pickles…of course not including the most important ingredient added to a Bloody Mary 😉 won’t order/drink/make one w/o dill pickle juice…anyway, my mind isn’t computing what a pickled smokey sausage would taste like. But I like that this is a small batch recipe so I’ll have to give it a try) Just bought a Carey/Nesco 9.5qt Electric canner, which you can pressure can, pressure cook and water bath can in…so I’m looking for all the small batch recipes that I can find (wanting to take my maiden voyage with it hopefully this week)